. >> they do, they need to rest their hoppers. apart from christmas, we have never had it. when i tweet out twitter-verse, they say, thank goodness i won't get bills on saturday and maybe one less day of junk mail. there you go. >>> leave it to herb to do the work for you. the link between, i believe, herb and dividend payouts and stock performance. what have you found? >> dividend increases. with all these companies with so much cash burning a hole in their pockets. in many cases they are very big. just yesterday, harley-davidson announcing 35% increase. day before, master card out with a hundred percent increase. these are, you know, a little bit -- these are very important. but do they matter? going through s&p 500 to find out, the conclusion, let us take a look. here are the biggest dividends, biggest gains, over the past six months. you had nrg energy, 200 percent increase, 200%, seeing nasdaq, and 200% up. starwood hotels up 10.8%. which gets to the next big dividend, small gains. take a look at american tower. 109% increase. 5% gain in the stock price. saic, 3.5%. li